Check out these rare Marilyn Monroe pictures

Check out these rare Marilyn Monroe pictures

Marilyn Monroe was an enigma, but a series of her pictures in her most intimate moments discovered recently has made the sex symbol less of a mystery.

Image: Marilyn Monroe is seen in this handout image from a collection of previously unpublished photos of her in Alberta, Canada taken in the summer of 1953.Photographs: The Estate of John Vachon/Dover Publications, Inc/Handout/Reuters

Check out these rare Marilyn Monroe pictures

According to the Telegraph, more than 100 such black and white images shot by John Vachon, on assignment for LOOK magazine at the time during the summer of 1953 are disclosed in a new book 'Marilyn: August 1953: The Lost LOOK Photos'.

Image: Marilyn MonroePhotographs: The Estate of John Vachon/Dover Publications, Inc/Handout/Reuters

Check out these rare Marilyn Monroe pictures

Gradually Monroe seemed to heal as she spent more time with the family, including Joan, his daughter. But there were times, when she was at her worst -- heavily drugged, incoherent and distraught.

'She talked about being a waif, that she was ugly, that people were only nice to her for what they could get from her,' Daniel recalls.

'She said life wasn't worth living any more.'

On the day of her death, at 3am, Murray, her live in companion had an uneasy feeling that something was wrong and went to check on Marilyn -- she found the bedroom door locked, light on and the telephone cord under the door, all of which were highly unusual (after the psychiatric clinic, she couldn't abide being locked in). She called Greenson, who rushed over and broke into a side window.

Marilyn had been dead for some time; he had to prise the telephone from her hand.

While Greenson always felt that Monroe had died accidentally, Daniel suspects Marilyn deliberately committed suicide. After her death, many accused Greenson of killing her.

'Rich and famous people need the therapist 24 hours a day and they are insatiable,' he wrote in an essay, which was the only time he mentioned her.

'These patients are seductive.'

Image: Marilyn MonroePhotographs: The Estate of John Vachon/Dover Publications, Inc/Handout/Reuters